POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Authoritarianism, Geopolitics
13 Mar 2016
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The policies led by a state that are worth keeping are the ones that serve the greater. Public good: successful revolutions: vacuum filled by military movement and political party. 4. the failed state is the modern day anarchy. Failure through civil war: somalia, the former yugoslavia extreme violence: the us sent troops until the amount of dead americans was no longer tolerable, balkans, massive european intervention in the balkans because it is in the heart of. Europe - somalia (the above example) is in africa so people don"t care as much as the. The state had capacity but it was the winning of the taliban that led us forces to intervene when the public good was redefined in a contradictory way of us customs. Destroying a state: brit intervention: the intervention of the british gov was because they were misinformed about the level of mass destructions in iraq.
